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Music Library Files For 500 Artists, 2103 albums - SleepyP - 2010-01-05 I posted this before, but I've got a lot more artists done now. Basically I made a copy of the "library" files from my music library and then zipped them up and stuck the whole thing on mediafire.com. The "library" files are just jpeg images and .nfo XML files. The NFO files were exported by XBMC after running a complete scan using the AllMusic scraper, and are generally pretty good. Zipped this collection of stuff is 328 MB, and unzipped its 342 MB. Why would anybody want to download this? Basically, if you're looking for a quick & easy way to get a lot of nice artwork for your library, this is one way you can do it. All of my artist thumbnails and album artwork is 500x500 pixels square. I have fanart pictures for most of the artists, though not all of them of course. My file layout is like this: <root>\<artist name>\<artist name>-<album year>-<album title>\ Here is a list of all the artists in this "pack": 16 Volt 2Pac 36 Crazyfists 3OH!3 50 Cent 7 Year Bitch 808 State A Perfect Circle A Tribe Called Quest Aaliyah ABBA Action Figure Party Adam Sandler Adema AFI Agnostic Front Aimee Mann Air Akemi Kimura Akira Yamaoka Al Green Alan Silvestri Alela Diane Alice In Chains Alicia Keys Alien Ant Farm Alien Sex Fiend All American Rejects, The All That Remains Alphaville American Head Charge Amon Tobin Amor For Sleep Amy Winehouse Ana Rita Simonka Anatomy Of A Ghost Anberlin Andrea Bocelli Andrew Lloyd Webber Angel Dust Angel Tears Angela Morley Angelo Badalamenti Angels And Agony Ani DiFranco Animal Alpha Annie Lennox Anthony And The Johnsons Aphex Twin Apocalyptica Apoptygma Berzerk Apparat Aqua Architecture in Helsinki Aretha Franklin Ari Pulkkinen Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Art Of Trance Arthur B. Rubinstein Assemblage 23 Astrud Gilberto Atari Teenage Riot Ataris, The Atmosphere Atom And His Package Atomic Planet Augustus Pablo Avalanches Avenged Sevenfold Azoic B-52's, The Bad Religion Bahamadia Bangles, The Barrington Levy Basil Poledouris Bassnectar Bat For Lashes Bayside Beastie Boys, The Beat Junkies Beat, The Beatles, The Beatnuts, The Beautiful Mistake, The Beck Beirut Belle And Sebastian Belly Ben Folds Ben Folds Five Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos Benny Goodman Bernard Herrmann Beth Orton Bette Midler Bettie Serveert Between The Buried And Me Big Pun Big Sleep, The Big Soul Billie Holiday Billy Idol Bing Crosby Bjork Black Eyed Peas Black Light Burns Black Mages, The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Black Tape For A Blue Girl Blackalicious Blind Guardian Blindside Blink 182 Blondie Bloodsimple Blue Man Group Blue October Blur BoA Bob Dylan Bob Marley & The Wailers Bobby Brown Bobby Montez Bomb The Bass Bon Jovi Bonnie Raitt Bouncing Souls, The Box Car Racer Boy George Boys like Girls BoySetsFire Brad Fiedel Brand New Brazilian Girls Break The Silence Breeders, The Brian McKnight Brian Setzer Bright Eyes BT Bullet For My Valentine Busta Rhymes Butterfly Boucher Butthole Surfers, The Buzzcocks, The Cabaret Voltaire Cake Caliban Capcom Cardigans, The Carlo Siliotto Carnivore Carole King Cars, The Cassandra Wilson Casual Cat Power Cat Stevens Catch 22 Charles Mingus Cheb I Sabbah Chemical Brothers, The Cherry Poppin' Daddies Chet Baker Chimaira Chris Isaak Chris Rezanson Cibo Matto CKY Clancy Bounds Clint Mansell Coal Chamber CocoRosie Cocteau Twins Colbie Caillat Coldplay Collide Cooper And Bounds Copeland Counting Crows Craig Armstrong Craig Armstrong And AR Rahman Cranberries, The Crystal Castles Crystal Method, The Cub Cure, The Cyndi Lauper Daft Punk Daisuke Ishiwatari Dandy Warhols, The Dane Cook Danger Mouse Danny Elfman Dario Marianelli Darkness, The Dashboard Confessional David Bowie David Cross Dead By Sunrise Dead Can Dance Deadmau5 Death Cab For Cutie Death In Vegas Deftones Delerium Demon Hunter Denis Leary Depeche Mode Dethklok Detroit Cobras, The DevilDriver Devin Townsend Dido Disturbed DJ Babu DJ Cam DJ Dean DJ Hurricane DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince DJ Krush DJ Quik DJ Revolution DJ Shadow DJ Z-Trip & DJ P Dog Fashion Disco Dope Doves, The Dr. Dre Dreaming, The Dresden Dolls, The Dropkick Murphys Electric Hellfire Club, The Electric Six Eminem Enduser Enigma Enya Esthero Evanescence Faith No More Faithless Fall Out Boy Fannypack Fant“mas Fatboy Slim Faunts Fear Factory Fever Ray Fiend Filter Finch Fiona Apple Five Finger Death Punch Flight Of The Conchords Flogging Molly Flyleaf Foo Fighters, The Fort Minor Front 242 Front Line Assembly Frou Frou Future Sound Of London, The Garbage Garry Schyman Ghostface Killah Glen Hansard & Mark‚ta Irglov* God Is An Astronaut Godflesh Godhead Goldfrapp Gorillaz Green Day Groove Armada Haujobb Hideaki Kobayashi Hideki Naganuma Hideki Okugawa Hidenori Maezawa & Misao Senbongi Hideyuki Fukasawa Hiromi Mizutani Hitoshi Sakimoto Hives, The Hole Hollywood Undead Howard Drossin Icon Of Coil Ill Nino Imogen Heap Incubus Innerpartysystem Ippo Yamada Ivy Jay-Z Jem Jesper Kyd Jimmy Eat World John Lennon John Mayer Johnny Cash Julien-K Jun Senoue Junichi Nakatsuru Junkie XL Jupiter One Justin Timberlake Kanye West Katatonia Kate Havnevik Kazunori Miyake Kevin Manthei Kid Cudi Kidneythieves Kill Hannah Killswitch Engage Klaus Badelt KMFDM Koji Kondo Korn Kota Suzuki & Wataru Hokoyama Kou Ootani Kraftwerk La Roux Lacuna Coil Lady Gaga Laibach Lamb Lauryn Hill Leonard Cohen Lil Jon & East Side Boyz Linkin Park Lisa Gerrard Lisa Miskovsky Lonely Island, The Lostprophets Madonna Marco Beltrami Marilyn Manson Masafumi Ogata & Naofumi Hataya Masafumi Takada Masaki Kurokawa Masami Ueda Masato Kouda Masato Nakamura Massive Attack Master P MC Chris Megadeth Men At Work Michael Jackson Michael Kamen Michiko Naruke Milosh Mindless Self Indulgence Ministry Misfits, The Missy Elliott Mix Master Mike Moby Morcheeba Motoi Sakuraba Motoi Sakuraba & Hibiki Aoyama Mr. Bungle mum Muse My Chemical Romance N.W.A Nakamura Masato NaS New Order Nickelback Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Nitrada No Doubt Nobuo Uematsu Norikazu Miura Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi Noriyuki Iwadare Offspring, The OneRepublic Oomph! Orgy Outkast Panic! At the Disco Paradise Lost Paramore Pati Yang Pearl Jam Photek Piebald Pink Floyd Pizzicato Five PJ Harvey Plumb Poe Pogues, The Portishead Postal Service, The Prince Prodigy, The Queen R.E.M Radiohead Raekwon Rage Against The Machine Rasputina Ratatat Red Hot Chili Peppers Richard Cheese Rise Against Roadrunner United Sachio Ogawa & Hideaki Miyamoto Sade Saitama Saisyu Heiki Scarling Senses Fail Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Sevendust She Wants Revenge Shiny Toy Guns Shoji Meguro Shusaku Uchiyama Sia Sigur R¢s Silent Civilian Silversun Pickups Simon Viklund Sirenia Skinny Puppy Slipknot Snow Patrol SOiL Soilwork Sonic Team Spencer Nilsen Spineshank Static-X Story Of The Year Sunny Day Real Estate SyncToy_12649a88-d6cf-46fd-a4c3-2eeb2776d98c.dat SyncToy_c4443083-fcda-4be7-ac1f-fee26d6e72c4.dat Taishi Senda & Yoshito Hirano Takayuki Iwai, Hideki Okugawa Takeharu Ishimoto Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Takeshi Miura, Hijiri Anze & Sanae Kasahara Takuya Yasuda Tapping The Vein Tegan And Sara Telefon Tel Aviv T‚l‚popmusik Theory Of A Deadman Timbaland Tool Toru Minegishi Trivium Underworld Veronicas, The Verve, The Vines, The Violent Femmes Viva Voce VNV Nation Voltaire Von Bondies, The Weezer Wesley Willis White Zombie William Shatner Winona Wire Wojciech Kilar Wumpscut Wu-Tang Clan Wyclef Jean X X-Ecutioners, The Xzibit Yann Tiersen Yasuhisa Watanabe Yasunori Mitsuda Yazoo Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yello Yellowcard Yoko Kanno Yoko Shimomura Yoshida Brothers, The Yoshitaka Hirota Yoshito Hirano Young Bleed YTCracker Yuki Kajiura Zao Zap Mama Zero 7 Zeromancer Zombie Nation Zwan My overall library stats: 500 artists, 2103 albums, 32849 tracks totaling 82 days, 17:27:34 of audio. 242 compilation / various artists discs. 177GB of data, 38000 files and 2873 folders. Because I don't want to pay MediaFire, I made a split archive (split every 209715200 bytes or 200MB), so you will need to download both parts before unzipping it. Part One: http://www.mediafire.com/?g0rtdhqxlvn Part Two: http://www.mediafire.com/?tkujndj1jyu Enjoy! - rcoops - 2010-01-06 Downloading them now, thanks for the hard work I am sure that my music crazy girlfriend will be very happy with it. Just out of curiosity and because I know already that there are a few obscure artists that are in her collection which you will not have in yours, where did you get the original material from for all this art? Did you simply browse the web and create is all from available material or did you use some other less time intensive trick? Basically I would like to add some artists because I refuse to have to listen to her whine about how ugly it is that some artists don't have a image while others do... - SleepyP - 2010-01-07 wurd, see my thread on the subject: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=60352 Album Art Downloader is awesome but doesn't do the "per-artist" thumbnails. For those you either have to hope somebody else made one and put it on htbackdrops.com (all of mine are also uploaded there), or you'll have to make one yourself. One of my roommate's has a ridiculous video game soundtrack collection, and some of those obscure Japanese game composers were impossible to find pictures of. For guys like that where I couldn't get a picture of them and I only had one album by them, I "cheated" and used the album artwork as the artist thumbnail also. This works surprisingly well. I might have some of the same artists, do you have a list of who you're missing art for? - rcoops - 2010-01-07 Yeah, sorry about that read your other post just after I posed that question, should have looked first... I don't have a list just yet still working on album art and artists but I fear the worst as the artists I am talking about are French, Dutch, Czech, German and a few other countries, of which some never got beyond that first album. But I'll do my best a few of these people I know personally which always helps getting a artist image. Once I have my collection (well her collection done) I'll upload the stuff to htbackdrops.com so that that collection grows a bit further. For now though I have to re-org all the music into a per artist folder structure like you advised as this seems to be the best way to get the library to show the images for the artists without having to jump trough to many hoops getting it all in the right place. Oh, one more question though I know I did this in the past but I couldn't figure it out yesterday evening how on earth do I get XBMC to rescan the folder.jpg. Even removing the entire music collection from sources cleaning up the library and adding it back again did not result in the images being rescanned. It was after midnight so maybe that had something to do with me not being able to get this sorted - SleepyP - 2010-01-07 its not picking up any of your artist thumbnails at all? - grey - 2010-01-07 i am new to XBMC, and i got a question: i need to unzip it to my xbmc box, and then xbmc automagically searches for these images or i must do it manually, for every music folder apart ? thanks! - SleepyP - 2010-01-08 Generally, the way people use these kind of files is by placing them in their media library, so in this case you would be putting these files alongside your music files. The "XBMC-friendly" way to organize is by having one directory for each artist. The per-artist art files go in this folder (which is how they are in my pack) and then XBMC should use them when scanning your library. For albums, each album should have its own folder, and and you'll want to place the cover art for each album inside that folder, named folder.jpg (again this is how my pack is). You will also want to "embed" the cover art into the actual music files themselves. Mp3tag can do this as a "batch" operation, meaning you should only need to do it once. That utility is free and can be found here: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ - grey - 2010-01-08 thanks! Also compiling artist list - marcozd - 2010-01-26 Looks like a great selection - I am also *slowly* compiling a list of artists (I have a lot of old 50s and 60s artists that I am trying to compile, as well as country and western artists and lounge singers). IMPORTANT QUESTION: do you HAVE to embed the album art file into the mp3 file, or is there a way to force XBMC to use the "folder.jpg" file in each album directory as the album art? Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.